There are not plenty of stories I can recall from the Cuban 80’s regarding religion. Being in primary school I was growing up to be a complete atheist, never baptized, never introduced to religion at home or at school. The vague idea of the existence of God I had was brought to me by very […]
Hace unos dias he conversado con un americano de San Francisco que hablaba el castellano bastante bien. Resulta que además de la gran influencia latina en la ciudad y de estudiar el Español en la escuela, sus abuelos eran procedentes de Galicia, asà que de pequeño lo hablaba en casa. Para mi sorpresa, no tan […]
Cubanos, He encontrado este documental donde músicos y actores cubanos hablan de sus experiencias al llegar a Madrid, tanto en el sentido profesional como en el sentimental. Nos hacen llegar sus opiniones, nostalgia por La Habana y sus emociones al regresar a la isla de visita. Si aun no lo han visto se puede encontrar […]
I get a lot of questions from Canadians who want to visit Cuba for the first time. Is it safe there? Do I need a vaccine? Â Is the food good? Is the silver as cheap as in Mexico? Have you heard of this hotel? Can you find me a tour guide in Havana? Cuba is […]
Some days I cannot take Havana out of my mind. If feels like I am losing something really precious to me and there is nothing I can do about it. Trying to fight that feeling back would be like trying to fight time and distance so I get somehow pessimistic. Today was one of those […]
Since the end of the 90´s these “fiber glass coconuts” have added more colour to Havana streets and more noise, of course. 🙂 I have always loved coco taxis, even if they were brought to the city for tourist – only purposes and the ride fare is not particularly cheap for locals. Luckily, you could […]
Que piden los cubanos cuando la gente visita o regresa de Cuba? Ahora que la llegada de mi madre se acerca varias personas me han preguntado si ya he pedido mis cigarros y mi ron. Pues si, claro que eso llega, yo diria que eso ni se pide ya, solo llega porque es bueno, bonito […]
Not too many people know how much I have  disliked the construction of the “Tribuna Antimperialista Jose MartÔ in Havana. One morning I woke to the noise of cranes, big trucks and ground diggers to find that my childhood park was getting completely destroyed to build “I don’t know what”! All I was able to […]
The  Zunzún or bee hummingbird lives only in Cuba and is the smallest bird in the world (approximately 6 cm long and 2 grames of weight). The little bird can flap its wings around eighty times per second and could fly up to twenty hours nonstop. Zunzún belongs to the Colibri family which has more […]
